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A multibillion-dollar lawsuit holding the United Nations responsible for the deaths of 8,300 people in a cholera outbreak in Haiti was filed in a New York court yesterday on behalf of relatives of victims and 650,000 people who have fallen ill.

The epidemic ravaged the country after the devastating earthquake in January 2010. The disease, believed to have been carried by Nepalese UN peacekeeping troops, now kills more than a thousand people a year in Haiti.

The lawsuit seeks compensation for all “who have been or will be sickened” and their relatives. The case is thought to hinge on the